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w. RoKosKx WALL CONSTRUCTION Filed Aug. 14. A 1925 May 17, 1927,l

Patented May 17, 1927.

Lezama WELLES BIOKOSKI, OF CARLOS, MINNESOTA.

WALL CONSTRUCTION;

Applicatioa mea August 1a,` 1925. serial No. 50,243.

My invention relates to improved construction of plastered Awalls and the object is to make a wall havingplastering reenorced by materials that will retain the heat in the building and also prevent cracking of the plaster and incidentally such non-cracking plaster will promote cleanliness by el1mmating cracks tor vermin to gather in.

The main idea of the invention is to selO sure in or on the wall some flexible material such as straw or hay and then apply the plaster in such a manner that its rear side gets partly inter-mixed with and stuck to the iexible material and then face oit the l5 plaster in any suitable manner. The new means and method may also be applied 'for outside plastering or so-called stucco work.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is an inside elevation of a partly 90 completed portion of a frame h-ouse wall embodying my invention, in one of its forms.

Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an inside elevation of a Wall portion embodying my invention in a certain l5 modified form.

Fig. 4 is a top View of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an inside elevation of a wall with another modification.

Fig. 6 is a top view ot Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is an elevation ofua portion oit a wall with my invention further modiiied.

Fig. 8 is a top view ot Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a detail view of a portion of a straw or hay cable used in forms ot the in- 35 ventinon, similar to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 10 designates the base portion ot a wall having upright stnddings 11 with sheathing 12 and siding 13 (shown iii-Fig. 8). In some houses metal lath and stucco may finish the outer side of the wall.

The straw or other flexible material I employ may be applied in various ways. Thus in Figs. 1 and 2 is shown that suitable horizontal wires la may be secured by staples 15 to the adjacent sides of the studdings 11, about midway between the outer and inner edges of eachstudding and the straw 16 wound about said wires preferably after being twisted into cable or rope form as indicated in Fig. 9. In this case the stucco 17 is secured to the outer side ofthe wall by .i shed.

sticliing to and miXingwith the straw, and i the inside plaster 18 1s. likewise secured upon 55 `the innervside of the wall and its surface finished iny any'desired manner. Y

In Figs. 3 and 4 ordinary lath 19 are spaced suitably apart and secured to the studdings by nails 20, and the straw is inserted las 16a in vertical posit-ion alternately inside and outside the lath and rthen the plaster 18 applied. i 4

Another modification is shown in Figs. 5 and 6, where a wire netting 21 is secured by staples 22 to the inner edges of the stud-. dings anda similar netting 2la in Fig. 6 may be likewise secured tothe outerl edges of the. studdings and the hay, straw or like material 16b may be filled in between the outer and inner netting between the studdings as shown in Fig. i

In the modilication shown in Figs@v and 8, a strong wire 23 is secured in zig-zag formation down the inner sides of the studdings and secured to them by either staples or nails 24. The straw 16c is then spread upon or against said wires and held in place by a lightV wire netting 25 secured by staples 26 and the plaster 18 is thenapplied and tin- The various modilications shown .do not exhaust all the forms obviously involved in the method illustrated, nor are hay and straw, rags and waste, thread o1' yarn the 35 only materials thatmay be used to toughen the plaster and malte the wall resist the es-v cape of heat, but what is shown and described disclose the principle of the invenl tion.

`What I claim is:

1. The combination with a house wall ot plaster put thereon and a soft grass-like ma terial secured in the wall and partly intermixed with the rear side of the plaster, said 95 soft material being twisted in the form of cables and as such projecting` laterally outward into the plaster said wall having rigid bars and said cables being wound spirally about said bars. 10U

2. The structure specified in claim 1 in Y which the wall has vertical studdings holding the rigid bars in horizontal position.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

WELLEs RoKosKI. 

